Street maps UK

Instructions for people looking for a free Street Map in the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England

Put your mouse cursor near the wanted location and then double click or simply drag the map.  The map image will move so that the chosen point is in the centre.

Alternatively type into the geocoder box below address information like the road or street name. e.g  Pembroke Road Liverpool, Kings Cross London.  Regarding postcodes, only the first part works to give an approximate location, e.g. SE1, London WC1A, RG26, CM3 etc

For street map London, just type "London".  If you get the wrong street or road (or wrong country!) try adding the county e.g. Chelmsford Essex or Hastings Kent UK.. The page with the street map should print out OK if required.

To increase or decrease the scale resolution, click on the plus (+) or minus (-) sign in the array of navigation boxes at the upper left side of the map.  The scale changes so that you can home in accurately on the wanted city, town, road or street map location.  Repeat several times.  Select Satellite or Hybrid version and see the satellite photo image of the ground or even a view of your own house as seen from space !

The latitude and longitude of the dot at the centre of the map is then displayed below the map, together with the Ordnance Survey Grid Reference OSGB.

Alternative, similar web based street map viewers are streetmap.co.uk which specialises in street maps for the U.K. and multimap.com which provides worldwide mapping coverage.   This page is based on the Google maps API.  Please choose these pages if appropriate:  Latitude and longitude finder  Satellite dish pointing UK